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Full Papers
Hochman, G., & Yechiam, E. (submitted). Loss aversion in the eye and in the heart: The Autonomic Nervous System’s responses to losses.
Koritzky, G., and Yechiam E. (in press). On the robustness of description and experience based decision tasks to social desirability. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making.
Yechiam, E., Druyan, M., and Ert, E. (2008). The effect of observing others on risk taking in decisions from experience. Judgment and Decision Making, 3(7), 493-500.
Yechiam, E., and Busemeyer, J.R. (2008). Evaluating generalizability and parameter consistency in learning models. Games and Economic Behavior, 63 (1), 370-394.
Erev, I., Ert., E & Yechiam, E. (2008). Loss aversion, diminishing sensitivity, and the effect of experience on repeated decisions. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 21 (5), 575-597.
Yechiam, E., Kanz, J., Bechara, A., Stout, J.C., Busemeyer, J.R., Altmaier, E.M., and Paulsen, J. (2008). Neurocognitive deficits related to poor decision-making in people behind bars. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 15, 44-51.
Sagi, I., and Yechiam, E. (2008). Amusing titles in scientific journals and article citation. Journal of Information Science, 34 (5), 680-687.
Yechiam, E., and Ert, E. (2007). Evaluating the reliance on past choices in adaptive learning models. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 51, 75-84.
Yechiam, E., Goodnight, J., Bates, J.E., Busemeyer, J.R., Dodge, K.A., Pettit, G.S., and Newman, J.P. (2006). A formal cognitive model of the Go/No-Go discrimination task: Evaluation and implications. Psychological Assessment, 18 (3), 239-249.
Yechiam, E., and Busemeyer, J.R. (2006). The effect of foregone payoffs on underweighting small probability events. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 19, 1-16.
Grosskopf, B., Erev, I., and Yechiam, E. (2006). Foregone with the wind: Indirect payoff information and its implications for choice. International Journal of Game Theory, 34 (2), 285-302.
Yechiam, E., Busemeyer, J.R, Stout, J.C, and Bechara, A. (2005) Using cognitive models to map relations between neuropsychological disorders and human decision making deficits. Psychological Science, 16 (12), 973-978.
Yechiam, E., Barron, G., and Erev. I. (2005). The role of personal experience in contributing to different patterns of response to rare terrorist attacks. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 49, 430-439.
Yechiam. E., and Busemeyer, J.R. (2005). Comparison of basic assumptions embedded in learning models for experience based decision-making. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 12 (3), 387-402.
Yechiam, E., Erev, I, and Parush, A. (2004). Easy first steps and their implication to the use of a mouse-based and a script-based strategy. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 10 (2), 89-96.
Yechiam, E., Erev, I., and Gopher, D. (2001). On the potential value and limitations of emphasis change and other exploration-enhancing training methods. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 7(4), 277-285.
Revisions of the Expectancy Valence model
Revised Expectancy Valence model with trial-independent choice consistency (Yechiam & Ert, 2007; Yechiam, 2007)
Equal Payoff Series Optimization , a method for estimating parameters based on responses to payoffs only; (EPSO; Yechiam & Ert, 2007).
Cue Valence model for a Go/No Go task
Cue Dependent reinforcement learning model for the Go/no Go (or passive avoidance) task (CD; Yechiam, Goodnight, Bates, Busemeyer, Dodge, Pettit & Newman, 2006).
Expectancy Valence model for the Iowa Gambling task
Expectancy-Valence model (EV; Busemeyer & Stout, 2002; see also Yechiam & Busemeyer, 2005; Yechiam, Veinott, Busemeyer and Stout, 2007)
Generalizations at the Individual Level (GIL) using the estimated parameter of the EV model (Yechiam & Busemeyer, 2007)
Simulation of multiple steps ahead using the estimated parameters of the Expectancy Valence model (Yechiam Veinott et al., 2007)
Binary Expectancy-Valence model (BEV; Yechiam & Busemeyer, 2005)
Blocked Expectancy-Valence (model parameters for each of four blocks of trials)
Decision Field model
Decision Field theory (Busemeyer & Townsend, 1992; Townsend & Busemeyer, 1995)
A method and system for teaching
touch typing.
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abstract
War of Kingdoms, an invented card game. (press the link to see a description of the game).
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Abstracts, presentations, and clippings
Barron, G. and Yechiam, E. (2002) was featured in New Scientist Magazine, 18 July 02, p. 9. Goto story
Yechiam,
E and Barron, G (2004) was featured in Harvard Business School Working Knowledge
series.
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Yechiam, E., Barron, G., Erev, I., and Erez, M. (2003). On the robustness and the direction of the effect of cause-related marketing. Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 2 (4), 320-332. Get abstract
Yechiam, E., Erev, I., Yehene, V., and Gopher, D. (2004).
Melioration and the transition from touch-typing training to everyday use. Human
Factors, 45 (4), 671-684.Get
abstract